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SWASH, n. An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. [A cant word.]

SWASH, n. A blustering noise; a vaporing. [Not in use or vulgar.]

1. Impulse of water flowing with violence. In the southern states of America, swash or swosh is a name given to a narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between that and the shore. Many such are found on the shores of the Carolinas.

SWASH, v.i. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag. [Not in use.]

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1913 Definition
Swash (swash)
n.(?)
Swash
[Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.] (Arch.)
  1. An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
    Moxon.

    Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.

  2. Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
    [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.
  3. To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
  4. To fall violently or noisily.
    [Obs.] Holinshed.
  5. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
  6. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
  7. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
  8. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
    [Obs.]
  9. A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
    [Obs.]
  10. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

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